Prof. Norbert Fruehauf received his Ph.D. (Dr-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and has more than 30 years of experience in designing and characterising liquid crystal light modulators and displays. From 1998 to 2001 he worked for Physical Optics Corporation , Torrance, California, USA, where he developed tunable micro-optic components, various display systems and integrated optical components. In 2001 he was appointed full professor heading the Chair of Display Technology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, where he specializes in large area microelectronics for applications in flexible displays, AMOLEDs and AMLCDs and sensor arrays.
Prof. Fruehauf is the inventor of the active matrix OLED pixel circuit with external compensation used in all worldwide sold active matrix OLED TVs, which was licensed to LG Display in 2021.
He has been General Chair of the SID Symposium 2014, Program Chair of Eurodisplay 2009, SID Symposium 2014 and Eurodisplay 2022 and serves on various other international Conference Organizing Committees
such as AMFPD and IDW. He is the current SID Regional Vice President Europe.